Outcoming

adj, noun

adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A result or outcome. dated

    "But perhaps you will say, even actual transgressors ought not to be considered guilty, or be punished, inasmuch as their sins are the necessary outcomings of an inherited, corrupt nature."

  2. 2
    The act of coming out of a place.

    "How often, as a child, had Kitty, lying in the grass, watched their outcomings and ingoings!"

Adjective
  1. 1
    That comes out. not-comparable

Example

More examples

"But perhaps you will say, even actual transgressors ought not to be considered guilty, or be punished, inasmuch as their sins are the necessary outcomings of an inherited, corrupt nature."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From out- + coming.

Etymology 2

From Middle English outcoming, outcominge, from outcomen (“to come out”).

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